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I had lunch in The Hoop and Toy this month.......

posted 9 years ago by simest
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It's still recognizable from REPULSION.

And they do a very nice fish and chip meal!

Dino's Restaurant is one street from there and now known as Muriel's Kitchen, while the Beauty Salon Carol works in is still there just a few doors down from The Hoop and Toy.

All in all, South Kensington is still a lot like we see it in 1965.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

[–] costumedept-1 8 years ago

I really enjoyed seeing how South Kensington looked in the 1960s, and was rather amused when Carol gets a lift home, even though it's only around the corner (creative geography I think it's called in film terms). I did think it would be very unsettling to be watching this film and realise that you live in her apartment! I assume some of it was real and not a set.

[–] psdhart 8 years ago

According to filming locations the flat was in Earl's Court

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059646/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt